"No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell"

-- Stephen Chbosky

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“The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.”
“I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love.”
“But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.”
“In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.”
“If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.”
“On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.”
“Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.”

Source : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.
“Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”

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